Perspectives on digital afterlife / Maggi Savin-Baden and Victoria Mason-Robbie -- Social media and digital afterlife / Elaine Kasket -- Posthumous digital material : does it 'live on' in survivors' accounts of their dead? / Mórna O'Connor -- The impact of digital afterlife on grief and mourning / Carla Sofka -- Digital afterlife to digital endurance / Debra Bassett -- Law, policy and digital afterlife / Edina Harbinja -- Digital remains : users perspectives / Tal Morse and Michael Birnhack -- Legal issues in digital afterlife / Gary Rycroft -- Building a digital immortal / David Burden -- Philosophical investigations of digital afterlife / John Reader -- Postdigital afterlife / Petar Jandric -- Digital afterlife matters / Victoria Mason-Robbie and Maggi Savin-Baden
Summary
"The concept of digital immortality is defined as the continuation of an active or passive digital presence after death. Advances in data mining and artificial intelligence are now making an active presence after death possible, and the dead remain part of our lives as they live on in our digital devices. This book draws together a group of leading experts in the field to present the diverse understandings of digital immortality and examine the impact digital immortality has on recipients and on the wider society. It will explore the impact of digital immortality on preservers of digital media, receivers of digital media, and mediators"-- Provided by publisher
